The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-03

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UNCLE JACOBS PLAN.
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"Fie, mani Spelling your breakfast
said Uncle Jacob, az he cslno into the
garden where I wnu at work. .'Too bat
tospoil such anice brcakiast 90 your Mary
gets" z g.SriF5 yt@ hSHt1
"Why, Unclo jacob" said I, III was
brought up TO earn my breakfsst before
"Tut, tut" mani I didn't mean work.
Ing In the pure dr." nag 'gN9'NII
"Wftst then?" NlM5N
vita that nasty pipe that ia epoiliuy
9od'a sweet cir for you. Spoils your ap.
petite, too. l know all about It. I move.
bad q good breakiaa. for twenty years,
though your Aunt Rachel is the bsst cook
yon eyer Raw. I used TO find fault with
my vlctuals and tell wife they didn't taste
like mothers. The patient roil' bore Il
AL meekiy, Tor years, but one morning
aaid: Jacob, did 1t mover come into your
mind that tho difference between your
mothers cooking and mine lays in that
pipe? You didn't emoke when you ate
her food. l try as hard as / can to suit
but you mix 80 much tobacco juics and
smoke with the vlctusls that It epoils It
all." ''s6' ET7T'- |'f@ - -. y
II didn't say nothing, because there
wasn't nothing to say; but kept think.
ing, yes, and smoking too, for awhile, but
| didn't find any moro fault with your
aunt'H cooking. One day, while I was
COVE East for spell, was thinking what
| could carry home to Rachel. II kept
coming into my mind that the thing abe
would like best would bs husband with
pIre breath and clean lips. So with a
mighty effort and prayer for help, ssid:
,ril DO 1t; ~ quit now and forever, 30
"Oid your aaid I, taking nv own
meerschaum from my mouth. ~ Nlf
"Quit?" said he, "I'd do It after / made
up my mind to 1t If it killed me-that's
Your uncle Jacob. There was an old lady
moved from our neishborhood, who lived
right on the road where was travelling,
She'd known me from boy. went to
her and I days, says !, Aunt Polly, I want
70 make you present. Pm going to give
you my pipe and tobacco The old lady
smoked. ! knew she would never quit,
and ! couldn't. quito bear to throw the
pipe away, I'd bad II 30 long. ~
"tWhat fur 2 saya she. :, &,
";oh. I'm going to quit, Aunt Polly
."'QIit, says she, why, Jacob Gay, it
will kill you You can't do it, 49, -. ;.
H"'sae I I don't, says I, and rode
away. y 8 =. TN !. II
"lta been twenty years and haven't
been back after it. And 1t didn't kill me
either" said Uncle Jacob, throwing back
his broad shoulders, and striking his deep
chest, and showing his teeth sound and
white, in spite Of his seventy yearu. +,
"Didn'ty you banker after your piper 7
asked. -
"Hanker! faint no word for it. Fact
10, don't believe there's any word strong
enough. But I'd mads up my mind. I
vas crosses than ton bears, aud I didn't
dare togo home for three weeks Tor fear
| ehould abuse Rachel" t,',{ ,l.1-,!5 s,...
What did Aunt Rachel say when You
told her?" 8TI5E' -
u never ssid nothin' about it at fi.ss,
but l didn't emoke. II ahe noticed it che
didn't let on, the fret day. The second
day, alter dinner, she said, Jacob, seems
to me / haven't Heen you smoke eincs you
got home. You amt sick, or nothin', be
you? Doea your business trouble you P
ssid the kind soul, anxioueiy. ;.,2i
"'poh,,' said Live always smoked alter
[ ate for thirty years. ,ls@ z?
"'But I'm cure haven't soen you nor
smels tobacco. ,,b. 5s.sq,'.sl 8 \.
"'Go and look in my other clothes, RI.
chel, and sea if you don't find my pipe
and tobacco.' ''', .IiiI75, a
"She went rummaging away Tor while
and at last eaid, where be they, Jacob p
she looked 80 aBsonishcd that I said,
We'll, Rachel, you needn'tlook for 'em no
more. l Left tho peaky thinga down in
Bnrnhsm CHATS o good place for 'em.)
You and will never see 'em again. I've
quit. Hain't smoked for three weeks and
don't mean to for all time.' You should
have Deen your aunt's face light up. She
kinder eidled up to me and said: ttt't.r
"'Jacob Gay must Gay + and then
she kissed me, a thing she didn't often do.
'Spect she didn't like the emell of my
breath. tell you, Rachel's cooking was
.ip.top after that, F2: 81
"Pvo had good breakfasts for twenty
year, no bad taste in my mouth. Don't
aeed to do anything TO get up an appetite.
Rachel's cooking 10 as good ss mother's,
and better too. You can't think how
pleased abe 10 when I praise 1t, seeing
Was on the other track so long. There's
the breakfast bell. Come, nephew, throw
away that old pipe and lot'n 60 in and tell
Mary" 2t'sJ-as,l Il ~: 55ii3 &; ..tLy: ssi.a ~
~ won't allow that my Uncle Jacob has
stronger will power than l. What no can
do his nephew ought" I aaid. III he can
stop smoking l can." ~
but don't forget where the strength
comes from, my boy" said my uncle. III
you do, likely 90 not you'll FISH, Taia't no
easy job. I had q big tussle, and SO will
you. Don't try the Job alone. Hut there's
The bell egain. Mary thinks we didn't
here," W. 2,t-sS5.i5sl5 Us !.E
I had just gathered 6 charming bouquet
o. roses i0f my Vile, and RB We passed
into the dining room, I plsced them on
The vase by her side, and hidden beneath
tho leaves tucked my precious meer.
schaum. Mary thanked me for the flow.
sra, but did not geo tho thorn among
them. After Uncle Jacob had said grace,
Harry, j., pulled MGry'a sleeve and said !:
"Oh, mamma, sea-! There's papa'nipipe
in the rosca." w ~ s :
Mary looked up quickly, the crimson
rushing to her cheek, but abe only aaid !;
a"Why, Hsrry |" She thought her bus.
band was playing q oilly joke. Z, l7%,7f2,l
| saw how che took It, and FASTENED to
say, MARY, they are ult yours-the roses
and tho thorn beneath them ls1i7iSl
She gazed ct me increiulously minute,
but my face treasured her, and abe asked
"Harry, mayI hsve 1t for my own-to
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